Hose-supporter.



R. E. DGDGE.

HOSE SUPPORTER. I APPLICATION FILED AUG. 2, 191a.

Patented Ma 31,1914J iaml am RAYMOND E. DODGE, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTIJUT.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 9, 1913. Serial No. 783,881.

To'all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, RAYMOND E. DODGE, a citizen of the United States, residingat New Haven,-in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in I-Iose-Supporters; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in-- Figure 1 a front view of a hose supporter constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 a side view of the same. Fig.

3 a plan view of the loop member detached.

. Fig. 4 a sectional view on the line w-b of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 a sectional. view on the line c-'al of Fig. 3. j

This invention relates to an improvementin hose supporters, and particularly to hose supporters of the button-and-loop type, the

object being to produce a supporter which will firmly. hold the stocking and avoid as far as possible the possibility of tearing; and the invention consists in the construction hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claim.

In carrying out my invention I employ a. double loop 2 having two elongated slots 3,

l, which are contracted. at their inner ends 5, 6, in the usual manner of hose supporter- Preferably and as herein shown, the bar 7 which divides the loops is The device is applied to the stocking in the usual manner, that is, the buttons are placed inside the stocking, and the loop set over the buttons and drawn upward so as to crowd the buttons into the contracted lower ends of the loops. The narrow portion of";

the central bar'makes it easy to force the Patented Mar. 33, iifiilih of webbing also in the usual manner or hose fabric inward between the buttons so that suflicient-material will be provided between ,the-buttons to'perniit the lower ends of the loops to grip the fabric without unduly stretching it and allows the lower end or wide portion of the central bar to grip the shanks of the buttons. Other advantages of bending or twisting the central bar are, that it assists in forming sutiicient space for the clearance of the heads of the buttons without widening the upper portion of the loop and permits the buttons to be arranged closely together.

I claim A hose supporter in combination with two buttons arranged side by side, oi? a double loop having a central bar, a portion of the said central bar narrower than the space between the heads of said buttons, and the lower portion of the bar wider than the space between the heads of the buttons whereby the upper narrow. portion of the bar maybe readily passed betweenthe but tons and the wider 10am portion engaged with the shanks thereof, substantially as de scribed:

In testimony whereof, I have signed specification in the presence of two sui scribing witnesses.

RAYMOND DODGE.

Witnesses:

Funnsmio C. EARLE,

MALCOLM P. NICHOLF 

